Founded on 15th April 1923; revitalised under the leadership of the then Secretary General Com EX Jospeh in 1957, faced innumberable onslaughts by the bureaucracy of Indian Audit & Accounts Department under CAG of India; fought disruptions patronised by CAG many a time; champions the cause of audit and accounts employees, the Central Government employees and workers and toiling masses.

Statements on Head Quarter quota remittances and dues, remittances ofspecial fund and remittances and dues on Auditlekha are attachedherewith. The dues prior to 01-04-2009 have not been included. (If weinclude that too it will be a mind blowing figure).

If the present state of affairs continues, functioning of head quarterwill be put into hardship.

All the units are requested to clear the head quarter quota dues andAuditlekha dues at the time of CWC.

It will have to be decided by the CWC – if there is a failure to clearthe dues by any unit – whether to permit the unit to be permitted toparticipate in the CWC meeting on 24-25 February 2011 at New Delhi.

Also the call for Special Fund has been responded to by very fewunits. Units are requested to collect the special fund and remit thesame at the time of CWC.

ON 4 ADVANCE INCREMENTS

Please recall the discussion with DAI on 18th January 2011 on theissue of implementation of the court ruling universally. DAI hadassured us that it would be done if there is no legal obstruction.

The order giving the benefit of 4 advance increments on passing thedepartmental confirmatory examination to those Auditors who passed theDC examination between 1973 and 1981 has been issued by CAG office.Wide publicity may please be given to this.

The replacement of qualification pay with 4 advance increments onpassing of DC examination will have to be taken to its logicalconclusion by vigorously pursuing it organisationally.

Dear Comrades,CWC – 2011A brief note on agenda items is given along with this circular. Allunits are requested to discuss the agenda items in their executivecommittee and in the activists meeting, taking the opinion of thegeneral body meeting.

It will be the right thing to present the decisions arrived atdemocratically in the organisational forum in a precise and concisemanner in the CWC meeting. Each unit is requested to make a writtenpresentation after presenting the views in the CWC as this will helpCHQ. This will also save a lot of time.WOMEN'S CONVETIONThe 1st Women's Convention under the aegis of Confederation of CentralGovernment Employees and Workers was held at Kolkata on 7th and 8thFebruary 2011. 19 comrades representing All India Audit & AccountsAssociation participated in the Convention – in addition to comradesfrom West Bengal. (Quota for the Association was 15). Kerala-1, TamilNadu (Chennai)-6, Karnataka (Bangalore)-5, Maharashtra-Mumbai-2,Orissa (Bhubaneswar)-1, Himachal Pradesh (Shimla)-4.

At the very outset, wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year2011. Our New Year resolution should be, on priority, getting theresolution on rejection of arbitration award on grant of parity in payscale with central secretariat called back from Parliament and gettingthe award implemented. Reports receiving from the field formations of the constituentorganisations indicate that the non implementation of the award andthe move of the government to reject it is not generating sanction –and hence action – as it should. Many reasons are cited by many acomrades. The common refrain is that the direct beneficiaries of thearbitration award who are still in service are getting dwindled day byday. There is a failure on the part of the leadership in educating themass of employees on the adverse impact of the rejection of thearbitration award on grant of parity in pay scale with centralsecretariat. One should remember that irreparable damage has already been causedto our demand for parity in pay scale with Assistants of CSS by thesimple action of certain misguided colleagues knocking the doors ofjudiciary and the Supreme Court knocking out the demand in theexpected lines. The sixth CPC has also not done what was expected of it – statingthat, relying on the Supreme Court judgement rejecting the parity withAssistants of CSS, parity has never been accepted by the government.Though the SCPC gave the same grade pay to both SAs and Assistants,the Assistants have again manipulated to be at a higher grade pay,against the very recommendation of the SCPC. The award given by the Central Board of arbitration in 2004 grantingparity in Pay scale to SAs of Audit & Accounts with Assistants of CSSfrom 1.1.1986 is the basis for the demand of audit and accountsfraternity for the parity with Assistants of CSS – with judiciarygoing against us. If the Parliament also rejects the concept of pay parity withAssistants of CSS by the rejecting the arbitration award, the resultwould be that forever the audit and accounts personnel would have tobe at a lower pedestal in the pay hierarchy vis-à-vis Assistants ofCSS. Let us remember that audit and accounts employees achieved the longpending demand of pay parity with Assistants of CSS in 1984/1987 andalso in 2003 not through judicial process, but through negotiationsbacked by sustained agitation. The story is not different today. It should be our endeavour todefeat the forces that are working against the interests of audit andaccounts fraternity – in and out. For that a strong movement is to bebuilt up, the local JACs will have to be functioning and active.The local MPs should be contacted and they be persuaded to write tothe Finance Minister calling upon him to recall the resolution andimplement the award given by the Central Board of Arbitration in CAref No 03/2001.Keeping in mind that any laxity in mobilising the membership and theMPs of your area would be suicidal for the cause of audit and accountspersonnel for ever to come, the Apex JAC appeal to every one of youplunge into education and mobilisation of Members of the Associationsimultaneously trying to enlist the support of the Members of theParliament.

AWAKENING DAY ON 15-02-2011The Apex JAC calls upon every constituent and its field formations toobserve 15th February 2011 as "AWAKENINGDAY" by holding lunch-hourdemonstration in each office and adopt the enclosed resolution. Copyof the resolution may please be forwarded to Apex JAC as well as tothe CHQ of each constituent organization.

APEX JAC MEETING It has been decided that, apex JAC shall meet at AGCR Building, ITONew Delhi on 22nd February 2011 at 3.P.M. to review the latestsituation and decide about the future course of action.

All Chief Executives of constituent organizations of apex JAC arerequested to attend the meeting without fail. However, formal noticefor the meeting is being issued separately.

With warm greetings,Yours fraternally,

(V.Bhattacharjee)ConvenerResolution

This general body meeting of the …….Association held on 15th February2011 having deliberated in detail the adverse impact of the move ofthe government to reject the award by the Central Board of Arbitrationin CA ref No 03/2001 here-by commit themselves to launch vigorouscampaign amongst the audit and accounts employees for joining thestruggle for parity in pay scale with Assistants of CSS and grant ofhigher pay scale to audit and accounts cadres maintaining verticalrelativity.

This meeting further resolves to mobilise the Members of theParliament of the state/station in support of the implementation ofarbitration award in CA reference No 3/2001, granting pay parity withAssistants of CSS.